It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier, A Song

I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.

John Major

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Charles Steinmetz

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Nicholas Lea

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

Newt Gingrich

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Tom Brady

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sanoa healthy mind in a healthy body

Hippocrates

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Bobby Darin

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Jim Rohn

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Thomas Carlyle

I fly from pleasure, said the prince, because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.

Samuel Johnson